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Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions was 0.0212 Index in 2025. ▼ Falling

Latest (2025)
0.0212 Index
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
44th
of 109 countries
All-time high
0.0425 Index
in 2014
All-time low
0.0212 Index
in 2018
Years of data
12
2014–2025

Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia, 2014–2025

00.010.020.030.042014201920252014: 0.042 Index2015: 0.042 Index2016: 0.042 Index2017: 0.042 Index2018: 0.021 Index2019: 0.021 Index2020: 0.021 Index2021: 0.021 Index2022: 0.021 Index2023: 0.021 Index2024: 0.021 Index2025: 0.021 Index

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Index.

Analysis

Saudi Arabia recorded 0.0212 Index for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 12 years on record.

The figure is down 50.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia peaked at 0.0425 Index in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0212 Index, in 2018.

That places Saudi Arabia 44th out of 109 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 12 years of available data.

Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia, year by year

Year Index Change
2014 0.0425 Index —
2015 0.0425 Index +0.0%
2016 0.0425 Index +0.0%
2017 0.0425 Index +0.0%
2018 0.0212 Index -50.0%
2019 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2020 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2021 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2022 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2023 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2024 0.0212 Index +0.0%
2025 0.0212 Index +0.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2010s 0.0354 Index 0.0212 Index 0.0425 Index 6
2020s 0.0212 Index 0.0212 Index 0.0212 Index 6

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Frequently asked questions

What is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia?
Digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions in Saudi Arabia was 0.0212 Index in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
What is the highest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The highest recorded value was 0.0425 Index in 2014.
What is the lowest digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The lowest recorded value was 0.0212 Index in 2018.
How does Saudi Arabia rank for digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions?
Saudi Arabia ranks 44th out of 109 countries with data for 2025.
Is digital services trade restrictiveness index — electronic transactions rising or falling in Saudi Arabia?
Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Saudi Arabia data come from?
The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index — Electronic transactions
Unit
Index
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
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Coverage
129 places, 1,548 data points, 2014–2025
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The OECD Digital STRI identifies, catalogues and quantifies barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services across 129 countries. It provides policy makers with an evidence-based tool that helps to identify regulatory bottlenecks, design policies that foster more competitive and diversified markets for digital trade, and analyze the impact of policy reforms. The OECD Digital STRI captures cross-cutting impediments that affect all types of services traded digitally. As a stand-alone instrument, it complements the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). A zip file containing the OECD Digital STRI indices for all countries available over 2014-2025 can be downloaded here: OECD Digital STRI 2014-2025